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...super-colossal musical films, "The Goldwyn Folliers" turns out to be one of those movies which is significant not only for what "couth" Samuel Goldwin has put into the show which bears his name, but also for what he leaves out--namely, a plot. Rows of chorus girls, silvery glitter, and shiny floors are here replaced by the ballet and the opera, both excellently handled. Added to this are Charlie McCarthy, making his full-length movie debut, and the whacky Ritz Brothers, who, as usual, hold their own on the comedy side. Nevertheless, when all the ingredients...
...themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack of the factory and the salesman. . . . Cut rates, rebates, extravagant claims, unfairness in competition have brought to business its own punishment. Just as surely 'cutting corners' will ruin a college...
...schooner, the Morgana. Then they bought an island at the mouth of the Kennebec River and retreated from the world. Results: from Mrs. Etnier, a best-selling diary, On Gilbert Head; from Mr. Etnier, more & better clean, sea-breezy paintings of clambakes, sailing ships, ocean. In getting off-shore glitter, cool sky and the white spots of human figures into the right places on canvas, Artist Etnier's new paintings proved him a pleasurable if not a very powerful sea-scapist. Best picture: Rough Crossing, looking down as if from a masthead on a fisherman's launch...
...eyes glitter as they pierce the black...
...doubt it is partly the glitter of its memorable predecessors that dulls this version of MGM's big annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing...